STRATIFIED
LEARNING
Building Educator Impact, Layer by Layer.
This course is built on a simple but powerful idea: real learning only happens when something’s missing. When students stumble, guess, or get something wrong, their minds are opening up new possibilities. Instead of hiding or fearing those moments, we can use them as fuel. Together, we’ll explore how to make failure a natural, joyful part of classroom life — a sign that thinking is happening. By rediscovering the value of mistakes, teachers and students can move beyond “getting it right” and start celebrating the messy, exciting process of becoming more capable learners and more courageous thinkers.
In the real world, no learning curve is smooth. Every mountain has its gullies, every song its wrong notes, every discovery its abandoned drafts.
A Failure Festival is not about glorifying mistakes — it’s about reclaiming the ontology of becoming that makes education human again.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will:
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Understand how current educational structures exclude the philosophical category of failure and why this matters.
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Explain the CR concepts of absence, powers, tendencies, and emergence as they relate to learning.
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Design pedagogical experiences that make constructive use of error, uncertainty, and struggle.
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Develop a complete Failure Festival Blueprint for implementation in their classroom or school.
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Demonstrate alignment with relevant standards in reflective practice, professional knowledge, and innovation in pedagogy.
The Myth of the Upward Line
Unpack how schools often expect nonstop improvement and how this pressures students and teachers alike. Learn why the best learning journeys zigzag, loop back, and sometimes fall apart before they grow stronger.
Failure as a Hidden Strength
See how mistakes reveal what’s missing in understanding — and why that’s exactly where learning begins. Discover ways to make space for curiosity, confusion, and reflection in everyday lessons.
Turning Failure into Fuel
Get hands-on strategies to design classroom activities where students experiment, take risks, and learn to see setbacks as progress in disguise.
Creating Your Own Failure Festival
Bring it all together by designing a “Failure Festival” for your class — a practical plan that celebrates trial, error, and growth, showing students that every great success begins with something that didn’t quite work.
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